Poet and essayist, Louise Glück has made history after becoming the first American woman to win the Nobel prize for literature in 27 years. Glück, who has many literary awards to her credit, was today (Thursday, October 8, 2020) declared winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize award in Literature. The 77-year-old […]
Nobel Prize in Literature
Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says a comment the late novelist Chinua Achebe made about him shortly after he (Soyinka) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. Soyinka revealed this in a conversation with an American-based Nigerian novelist Okey Ndibe; which aired on Channels Television’s Book Club. In the course […]
There are loads of literary awards meant to promote and celebrate great literary works. eelive.ng puts together five of the most coveted.